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The original Nintendo Game Boy is a stout piece of hardware in a solid plastic enclosure. [Raphael Stäbler] recreated the popular handheld on a breadboard instead, in a fully-functional way, …read more Continue reading Breadboarding a Game Boy From Scratch
Science fiction predicted that we would one day all carry around tiny computers of great power. While smartphones are great, those predictions were more based on cuter systems that more …read more Continue reading Teensy Becomes Tiny Handheld Computer, Plays Emulators
Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of all Demos” introduced the world to a whole range of technologies we take for granted today, the most prominent being his great invention, the computer …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Chorded Keyset Recreates Engelbart’s Vision
Some projects you come across simply leave you in awe when you look at the thought and the resulting amount of work that went into it, not only for the …read more Continue reading LMN-3: Putting The ‘OP’ In Open Source Synthesizers
When it comes to impromptu enclosures, [Paul Wallace] is a man after our own hearts, for his serial-to-Ethernet converters allowing him to control older test equipment were housed in takeaway …read more Continue reading Eight RS232 Ports, One Ethernet Port
Do you need a microcontroller that runs at 1 GHz? No, probably not. But that didn’t stop [Visual Micro] from trying, and the results are pretty interesting. Not only did …read more Continue reading Teensy 4 Pushed to the Limit with 1 GHz Overclock
It seems like every year, it gets a bit easier to build your own CNC. From the Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) project of the early 1990s to Arduinos running Grbl in the late 2000s, the open source community has moved ahead in leaps and bounds. Grbl is at its core …read more
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams explore the coolest hacks of the past 168 hours. The big news this week: will Wink customers pony up $5 a month to turn their lights on and off? There’s a new open source design for a pick and place machine. You may …read more
It was only last August that PJRC released Teensy 4.0. At that time, the 4.0 became the fastest microcontroller development board on the planet, a title it still holds as of this writing — or, well, not exactly. Today the Teensy 4.1 has been released, and using the same 600 …read more
Continue reading New Teensy 4.1 Arrives with 100 Mbps Ethernet, High-Speed USB, 8 MB Flash